may rindge

After Frederick Rindge’s premature death in 1905, the fierce and unfriendly May Rindge who had grown up on a hardscrabble midwestern farm, fought to preserve Malibu’s pristine beauty and private status. Rindge used her armed ranch hands to block access to federal homesteaders, aimless squatters, poachers, outlaws, hunters, illegal campers, trespassers and real estate developers.…